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Cyber Security Company, Guardio Labs, has reported uncovering a major “SubdoMailing” campaign which involves the hijacking of 8,000+ trusted domains to send millions of spam and malicious phishing emails daily. Brands whose subdomains are being exploited in the campaign include MSN, VMware, McAfee, The Economist, Cornell University, CBS, Marvel, and eBay. Guardio Labs said it … Continue reading Security Stop Press : Thousands Of Brand Subdomains Hijacked For Spam →

Tata Group’s global battery business ‘Agratas’ has confirmed previous announcements that it will invest £4bn in a brownfield site near Bridgwater in Somerset to make it the UK’s biggest electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing facility. Somerset To Be Centre Of UK’s Green Energy Revolution Somerset Council has reported that the Agratas factory should create up … Continue reading Sustainability-in-Tech : New £4 Billion EV Battery Factory in Somerset →

Windows includes an extended “Send To” menu that offers more options for dealing with files, such as copying them directly to specific locations or sending them to compressed (zipped) folders. Here’s how to access it: – In Microsoft Windows, select a file or files in File Explorer. – Press Shift and right-click on the selected … Continue reading Tech Tip – Access Windows Secret “Send To” Menu for Quick Actions →

With some research indicating that ‘emotive prompts’ to generative AI chatbots can deliver better outputs, we look at whether ‘being nice’ to a chatbot really does improve its performance. Not Possible, Surely?  Generative AI Chatbots, including advanced ones, don’t possess real ‘intelligence’ in the way we as humans understand it. For example, they don’t have … Continue reading Featured Article : Try Being Nice To Your AI →

In this tech-insight, we look at what e-signatures are, their benefits plus some of the main e-signature providers, as well as what to consider when choosing an e-signature service. Popularity of E-signatures  The initial growth of e-signatures happened in the early 2000s, due to the passage of laws such as the US Electronic Signatures in … Continue reading Tech Insight : Exploring E-Signatures →

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered Serco Leisure to stop using facial recognition technology (FRT) and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance. Not Necessary or Proportionate  An ICO investigation found that public service provider Serco Leisure, Serco Jersey and seven associated community leisure trusts had been “unlawfully processing the biometric data of more than … Continue reading Tech News : Firm Ordered To Stop Employee Face-Scanning →

Only a month after its launch, Google has paused its text-to-image AI tool following “inaccuracies” in some of the historical depictions of people produced by the model. ‘Woke’ … Overcorrecting For Diversity?  An example of the inaccuracy issue (as highlighted by X user Patrick Ganley recently, after asking Google Gemini to generate images of the … Continue reading Tech News : Google Pauses Gemini AI Over ‘Historical Inaccuracies’ →

Apple says it’s rolling out an update to its iMessage texting platform that can defend against future encryption-breaking technologies such as decryption by quantum computers. Apple says its PQ3 “groundbreaking post-quantum cryptographic protocol” offers Level 3 security, i.e. it provides protocol protections that surpass those in all other widely deployed messaging apps. Apple says PQ3 (post-quantum cryptography … Continue reading An Apple Byte : Quantum-Proof iMessage Update →

Just days after it was announced that the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), the FBI, and Europol had taken down the Russian LockBit ransomware gang’s website, it’s been reported that LockBit ransomware is still being deployed via flaws in a popular remote access tool. Researchers at cybersecurity companies Huntress and Sophos have highlighted how two … Continue reading Security Stop Press : ConnectWise LockBit Alert →

The ‘gasification’ of waste tea prunings is being used to both provide free energy for factories in Kenya and to decarbonise the tea sector. Gasification  UK-based waste-to-energy company Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) has developed a ‘gasification’ process which can convert biomass and other feedstocks into synthesis gas (syngas), which can be used to generate heat … Continue reading Sustainability-in-Tech : ‘Gasification’ of Waste Tea Powers Factories →